GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leftist presidential candidate in last Sunday’s elections, said Wednesday 4 July he would request a recount of ballots, claiming that his main opponent Enrique Peña Nieto had broken election rules. Initial official results had put Peña Nieto in first place, with 38.15 percent, followed by Lopez Obrador [...]
PRI’s Peña Nieto claims victory in Mexican vote
July 2, 2012 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Enrique Peña Nieto, the presidential candidate of Mexico’s former governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), was claiming victory Sunday 1 July, following the release of early election results. In an initial partial result disclosed shortly before midnight, Peña Nieto had taken 38 percent of the vote, leading by six points over his closest competitor, the [...]
